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A superspace formulation of Abelian antisymmetric tensor gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-21 v2

Abstract

We apply a superspace formulation to the four-dimensional gauge theory of a massless Abelian antisymmetric tensor field of rank 2. The theory is formulated in a six-dimensional superspace using rank-2 tensor, vector and scalar superfields and their associated supersources. It is shown that BRS transformation rules of fields are realized as Euler-Lagrange equations without assuming the so-called horizontality condition and that a generating functional Wˉ\bar{W} constracted in the superspace reduces to that for the ordinary gauge theory of Abelian rank-2 antisymmetric tensor field. The WT identity for this theory is derived by making use of the superspace formulation and is expressed in a neat and compact form Wˉ/θ=0\partial\bar{W}/\partial\theta=0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9905167,
  title  = {A superspace formulation of Abelian antisymmetric tensor gauge theory},
  author = {Shinichi Deguchi and Bhabani Prasad Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9905167},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Latex, 19pages, No figs